PRESERVATION MARYLAND 2015 ANNUAL REPORT TAKING THE LEAD 03 01 02 04 05 06 08 07 MONTHS12 OF PRESERVATION MARYLAND 09 YEAR IN REVIEW 11 12 10 JAN Meagan Baco joins the APR Members of the General JUL Summer School brings OCT We proudly announced 01 team as our new Director of 04 Assembly join us for a reverent 07 together a record number of 10 our inaugural selection of sites Communications. moment on the 150th anniversary of Main Streets and Heritage Areas. forw our ne Six-to-Fix Program. FEB Town Halls across the the surrender at Appomattox at AUG Pre-dating Disneyworld, NOV Visit presmd.org — our 02 state bring hundreds of voices St. Ann’s Church in Annapolis. 08 Enchanted Forest's iconic 11 new website by Younts Design togethero t advocate for preservation MAY A statewide celebration structures reopen on Clark's Eliok Inc, a national firm and our neighbors in Maryland. 05 of preservation for Farm in Howard County. in historic Meadow Mill. MAR We lead the Maryland Preservation Month. SEP Experts lead and join our DEC Author Lauren Silberman 03 delegation during National JUN Kayakers explore the 09 mid-century modern bus 12 shares her favorite stories Preservation Advocacy Week in 06 indigenous landscape of tour spanning Prince George’s and about noted and notable women of Washington, DC. Crisfield yled b the Accohannock Montgomery Counties. Maryland in her book, "Wild Women Indian Tribe. of Maryland." PRESERVATION MARYLAND 2015 ANNUAL LETTER In 2015, Preservation Maryland’s 1 goal was straightforward: to be the MARYLAND unquestionable statewide leader for saving the Best of Maryland. PRESERVATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS HE ORGANIZATION WORKED o t strategically achieve that goal through investing heavily in advocacy, outreach, and funding. On the advocacy front, we hosted PRESIDENT Anthony Azola Town Hall meetings, led policy workshops, arranged over 50 in-person meetings VICE-PRESIDENTS with key state legislators, worked with partners to reverse damaging cuts to vital Mary C. Gregory preservation programs — and kept up pressure at the local level to support the Tyler Tate pe, leed Teffortsf o trusted allies from Baltimore to Cumberland. The organization also joined the SECRETARY Theresa T. Michel leadership team of Partners for Open Space, the state’s premiere open space advocacy TREASURER coalition, which defends the funds that support Maryland’s Heritage Areas and protects the Samuel K. Himmelrich, Jr. cultural landscapes which define the state’s rural legacy. ASSISTANT TREASURER EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE IMPACT OF THE ORGANIZATION through outreach Thomas S. Spencer, Esq. gained additional ground in 2015 with the launch of Six-to-Fix. This innovative new Diane L. Caslow program couples threatened historic resources with seed funding, capacity building, Edwin S. Crawford volunteers, and a publicity campaign to address the cause of the threat and set Matthew J. Daw pe, leed ap these important places on a positive trajectory. The first six sites, detailed in this Amanda Fenstermaker report,e ar a geographically and topically diverse collection of the places that make Maryland great. In addition to Six-to-Fix, we held another successful Preservation Dale Glenwood Green Nicholas A. Redding aaia, apt, leed ap Summer School, our intensive one-day professional development seminar that brings EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Richard E. Hall aicp together the regional preservation community to network, learn, and collaborate. Nicholas G. Penniman, IV DIRECT AID TO BRICKS-AND-MORTAR PROJECTS through the Heritage Fund remained Jeffrey A. Penza aia a critical component of the organization — bolstered by the decision to increase John J. Petro potential grant awards to $10,000, thus providing an opportunity to address larger Ann Powell aia, leed ap bd+c ande mor complex projects. The first $10,000 grant was sent across the Bay to Cambridge to assist the emergency repair of the Hearn Hardware Building — a Nakita Reed aia, apt, noma, ncarb, leed ap bd+c, ggp critical component of the downtown historic district and future anchor for the Anthony Azola redevelopment of Race Street. A full report on the success of our grant program BOARD PRESIDENT iso als included herein. NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE without your support. That support not only made this work financially possible, it also gave us the confidence to launch new programs, become stronger advocates, and support important projects. To the extent that we were successful in 2015, we owe atf deb o gratitude to you, our generous and steadfast supporters. We look forward to working on your behalf in 2016 to save the very Best of Maryland. Respectfully, Nicholas A. Redding Anthony Azola EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOARD PRESIDENT WASHINGTON15 13 • ALLEGANY • 23 Cumberland Hagerstown Elkton • GARRETT Westminster 19 • HARFORD • Havre de Grace • CARROLL BALTIMORE 2 Oakland 1 FREDERICK 17 14 CECIL Frederick • Towson 15 • REPORT 3 12 BALTIMORE CITY Ellicott City • • KENT 2015 STATEWIDE HERITAGE FUND HOWARD Baltimore • ANNUAL Chestertown HERITAGE FUND HIGHLIGHTS 2015 17 Repair of Ceres Bethel Church 19 Stabilization of Iron Master’s House Centerville Ruins at the Catoctin Furnace • AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES CULTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY MONTGOMERY ANNE The ca. 1870 church building and cemetery are intact examples of post- FRIENDS OF CUNNINGHAM FALLS AND GAMBRILL STATE PARK 6 ARUNDEL QUEEN The history of the Catoctin Furnace represents in microcosm the history • ANNE’S Civil War African American rural religious properties, but since 1984, the Rockville building has stood vacant and suffered at the hand of vandals and the of the Industrial Revolution in America; from 1776 to 1903, several iron Greenbelt • companies mined the rich ore banks near Catoctin Mountain, smelted it elements. The Heritage Society was granted $5000 to repair the roof Annapolis • and stabilize the building. Volunteers will provide labor for the other in furnaces, and cast iron implements of every description. With funding tasks necessary for stabilization, including removing the beehives in the from our Heritage Fund and the Maryland Heritage Area Authority, the walls and securing the doors and windows. stones of the 1774 Master’s House will be realigned and repointed to CAROLINE make the site safe for visitors Denton • 2 Public Archaeology at Hall Springs in Herring Run Park 11 Collection Planning and Preservation TALBOT BALTIMORE HERITAGE Based on a previous exploratory survey, a prehistoric camp, a 17th-century mill, an 18th-century tavern, and a ACCOHANNOCK INDIAN TRIBE The Accohannock Indian Tribe has called • Easton 19th-century plantation have been located in Herring Run Park. With a the Eastern Shore home for generations. John Smith encountered the PRINCE $5000 grant, Baltimore Heritage will complete shovel tests at the most tribe when he arrived in 1608, and today the Tribe regularly shares GEORGE’S threatened sites and organize a public outreach effort which will include its history with the public. Sadly, the Tribe’s museum that housed art, residents, stakeholders, and local schools. Support from the Heritage artifacts, and archives was closed by damages from Hurricane Sandy. The Fund will cover project equipment and project management expenses. Accohannock Indian Tribe will receive $4000 from the Heritage Fund to hire a consultant to draft a plan for the conservation and organization of CALVERT the materials in the collection. La Plata • Cambridge • 2015 STATEWIDE PRESERVATIONISTS ACROSS THE STATE eutiliz Heritage Fund grants for CHARLES HERITAGE FUND everything from preservation planning to hands-on preservation work to sharing PROJECTS their stories through outreach programming. Get to know our 2015 grantees: DORCHESTER EDUCATION & RESEARCH PLANNING & FEASIBILITY REPAIR & REHAB WICOMICO Solomons • • Ocean City • 1 Baltimore Architecture Foundation 11 Accohannock Indian Tribe SOMERSET 17 African American Resources and Cultural SAINT Salisbury BALTIMORE CITY Doors Open Baltimore COUNTY Accohannock collection planning Heritage Society FREDERICK COUNTY MARY’S doorsopenbaltimore.org and preservation Ceres Bethel Church façade stabilization 2 Baltimore Heritage BALTIMORE CITY Public 12 City of Brunswick FREDERICK COUNTY 18 Dorchester County Council DORCHESTER St Mary’s City archaeology project Cemetery condition assessment COUNTY Hearn Hardware Building • 3 C&O Canal Trust MONTGOMERY COUNTY 13 Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation stabilization SOMERSET WORCESTER Promoting Swains Lockhouse restoration ALLEGANY COUNTY Structural assessment 19 Friends of Cunningham Falls and Gambrill 4 Gibson Island Historical Society ANNE and architectural plan for historic barn State Park FREDERICK COUNTY Catoctin ARUNDEL COUNTY Archaeology project 14 Habitat for Humanity of Frederick Furnace Iron Master’s House Ruins 5 Maryland Historical Trust BALTIMORE County FREDERICK COUNTY Architectural stabilization CITY National Register research of African evaluation of log cabin 20 St. John’s Episcopal Church HARFORD COUNTY American Civil Rights resources 15 Hagerstown Aviation Museum WASHINGTON Belfry restoration Chrisfield 6 Pigtown Main Street BALTIMORE CITY COUNTY Museum facility feasibility 21 St. Vincent de Paul Church BALTIMORE CITY • Pedestrian wayfinding signage assessment South and east façade restoration 7 Preservation Society of Fells Point and 16 Historical Society of Charles County 22 Town of Brookville MONTGOMERY COUNTY Federal Hill BALTIMORE CITY Robert Long CHARLES COUNTY Interpretation at Entrance signs House lecture series Rich Hill historic